Zhao Yi, Joshi Rohina, Rampatige Rasika, Sun Jixin, Huang Liping, Chen Shu, Wu Ruijun, Neal Bruce, Lopez Alan D, Stewart Andrea L, Serina Peter T, Li Cong, Zhang Jing, Zhang Jianxin, Zhang Yuhong, Yan Lijing L
1 Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, People's Republic of China.
2 The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2016 Oct;28(7):601-610. doi: 10.1177/1010539516667780. Epub 2016 Sep 24.
Traditionally, verbal autopsies (VA) are collected on paper-based questionnaires and reviewed by physicians for cause of death assignment, it is resource intensive and time consuming. The Population Health Metrics Research Consortium VA questionnaires was made available on an Android-based application and cause of death was derived using the Tariff method. Over one year, all adult deaths occurring in 48 villages in 4 counties were identified and a VA interview was conducted using the smartphone VA application. A total of 507 adult deaths were recorded and VA interviews were conducted. Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death (35.3%) followed by injury (14.6%) and neoplasms (13.5%). The total cost of the pilot study was USD28 835 (USD0.42 per capita). The interviewers found use of smartphones to conduct interviews to be easier. The study showed that using a smartphone application for VA interviews was feasible for implementation in rural China.
传统上，死因推断（VA）是通过纸质问卷收集，并由医生审查以确定死因，这需要大量资源且耗时。人口健康指标研究联盟的VA问卷可通过一款基于安卓的应用程序获取，死因则使用关税法得出。在一年多的时间里，确定了4个县48个村庄所有的成人死亡病例，并使用智能手机VA应用程序进行死因推断访谈。共记录了507例成人死亡病例并进行了死因推断访谈。心血管疾病是主要死因（35.3%），其次是损伤（14.6%）和肿瘤（13.5%）。试点研究的总成本为28,835美元（人均0.42美元）。访谈人员发现使用智能手机进行访谈更容易。该研究表明，在中国农村地区使用智能手机应用程序进行死因推断访谈是可行 的。
